Courses

Stanford offers courses designed to help PhDs and Postdocs explore and plan their path to meaningful work.

Portfolio to Professional (P2P)

Spring 2016, Tuesdays 12-1PM

The Portfolio to Professional (P2P) course is designed to guide and support PhD students from all disciplines in creating a digital portfolio that uses multimedia evidence to communicate the story of your professional pathway and career goals. The course will include a combination of face-to-face meetings and online activities. The course will be divided between topic sessions with weekly assignments focused on helping you design and build your e-Portfolio, and feedback sessions involving portfolio reviews with alumni, employers, and faculty. Enrollment will be limited to 15 students. 1 unit of credit or auditing is available.

For information and application information visit: https://www.smore.com/h8bdw

Application deadline: March 1st, 2016, 5pm PST.

ENGR 311B: Designing the Professional

How to Get a Life as well as a PhD: Seminar open to ALL doctoral students (Humanities, Sciences and Engineering). Apply principles of design thinking to designing your professional life following Stanford. Topics include: Introduction to "design thinking", a framework for vocational wayfinding and locating profession within life overall; tools to investigate multiple professional paths. Creation of personal "Odyssey Plan" to innovate multiple prototypes for post-PhD professional launch.

For course details and schedule, visit Stanford Explore Courses. 

SGSI - Stanford Graduate Summer Institute

Explore ~ Experience ~ Expand

Discover the Stanford Graduate Summer Institute: immersive, interactive, interdisciplinary courses for incoming and current Stanford graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

https://vpge.stanford.edu/interdisciplinary-learning/sgsi/2015-sgsi-course